On: Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless

[scrame]

this is news? social media and promotion algorithms have always been attention roulette for ad dollars, and nothing in that ecosystem has a knowledge of "meaning", just engagement through statistics.

[hocuspocus → scrame]

Pre-Elon algorithmic timeline was certainly not perfect but it mostly did the job, and I'd discover accounts sharing content relevant to my interests, the need to mute or block was fairly minimal.

[nottorp → scrame]

Note that the post is about 'creating content'. Of course what they want is 'engagement'.

If you actually have something to say about a subject you care about, the term is not 'creating content'.

[ysofunny → nottorp]

not from your perspective. but from the viewpoint of the platform, it is just more content

[latexr → ysofunny]

> from the viewpoint of the platform

The post wasn’t written by a (person who works for a) platform, it was written by a user of it.